Meeting some of the ACT’s future leaders. Canberran high school students Riley Hawke, Corey Goodberg and Olivia Straker speak with Dan and Adam. ABC Canberra
We congratulate Caitlin Figueiredo (ACT Young Woman of the Year) and Ashleigh Streeter-Jones (ACT Woman of the Year) on being named Forbes 30 Under 30 for their work on parliamentary gender equality.
Merici Student and Teacher awarded the Simpson Prize 2018
We are delighted to announce that Samantha Elise Trafford (Year 10) has been selected as the Simpson Prize 2018 winner for the Australian Capital Territory. Many outstanding entries were submitted to the competition and Samantha is to be congratulated on this achievement.
We have had another great week in debating with five big wins.
Our Year 8 team (Alyssia Borgia, Isabelle Dunn and Anna Mels) defeated Girls Grammar arguing ‘that Australia should become a republic’.
Our second Year 8 team (Pragnya Gupta, Lana Dexter and Stephanie Frater) defeated Canberra Grammar successfully arguing ‘that Australia should become a republic’.
Our Year 10 team (Lily Alexander, Aislinn McArdle and Samantha Trafford) defeated Burgmann arguing ‘that Maths should not be compulsory for Years 11 and 12’.
Year 7 students who were scheduled to go on camp in Tathra this week, have spent some time writing letters of support to the community of Tathra.
The camp has been rescheduled and students will be visiting Tathra for three days on Wednesday 2 May to Friday 4 May.
We congratulate Meh-Ara Taseer on receiving the 2018 ANU Natasha Linard Scholarship for Women in Engineering and Technology. Meh-Ara is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Engineering at the ANU.
Please see link to the news article:
https://cecs.anu.edu.au/news/heartfelt-celebration-scholarship-announced-international-womans-day-0
We are very proud of you Meh-Ara!
UNSW Canberra Prize for Best Female in Mathematics Thursday 8 March, 2018
Congratulations to Annalise Lennon (Year 10) and Rebecca Fergusson (Year 8) who were both awarded the UNSW Canberra Prize for Best Female in Mathematics.
The UNSW has begun a new initiative – awarding prizes to the best female Maths student in Years 8 and 9 across schools in the ACT. The students were nominated last year by the Merici College Maths staff and today received their awards at a special presentation at ADFA today, Thursday 8 March.
This report was focussed on the Year 12 Graduating Class of 2017 cohort. The data was obtained from a Destinations Survey sent out to all students in mid-late January, after the December round offers for university placement.
The student survey related to:
• Plans for 2018 - categorised into further study, full time employment and a Gap year
• Plans for 2019- if they were taking a Gap year
• Type of study
• Institution of study
